School: Kilglass (roll number 15571)
- Location:
- Kilglass, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0164, Page 205
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- (continued from previous page)There used to be a number of yankees home every year, and they were a great success at the dances in the kitchen. The boys of the village would go in a body to them. They danced the "Sets", half-set or full set as the number and space allowed. And how they used to sing, and chain, and bow ; This particular yankee was in great request, and her lucky swain was having a great swing, when her hair got caught in a hook of a blouse that was hanging to dry on a line across the kitchen.
When next he looked upon her she was bald, the hook having held the wig ; and some gazed at the wig and others at the place it had been, all to the confusion of the poor girl who had been in heaven a few moments before.
- Collector
- M. Clarke
- Gender
- Female
